SB 63
San Francisco Bay area: local revenue measure: public transit funding.
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Fiscal committee
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Bill overview
This bill establishes the Public Transit Revenue Measure District in the San Francisco Bay Area to fund public transportation improvements. It would impose a retail transactions and use tax, up to 1%, on the counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo, Santa Clara, and San Francisco, subject to voter approval. The district’s revenue would be used to support various transit agencies, including Caltrain and the BART, and would also fund a financial efficiency review of those agencies, overseen by a newly created oversight committee. The bill also addresses election procedures and provides for state reimbursement for mandated costs.
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